More than 2.47 lakh new voters were added in the State after completion of ‘Special Summary Revision’ of electoral rolls. The final electoral roll after the revision was published on January 5, 2015, officials stated.
The officials at the office of Chief Electoral Officer informed that at the time of initial publication of the electoral roll on October 15, 2014 there were 1,76,74150 registered voters in the State. These included 8951833 men and 8722317 women voters.
According to the directions of the Election Commission of India, the special summary revision of electoral rolls was done on January 1, 2015 as the eligibility date. After completion of the special summary revision, the final publication of the electoral roll was done on January 5, 2015.
The officials said that in the special summary revision 2015, as many as 380841 new voters were added by form-6. Names of 33,388 voters were deleted from the voter list. Similarly names of 74,140 voters were deleted from the voter list following their death while names of 1,1678 voters were removed for duplication.
After completion of the revision, as many as 2,47,453 voters increased in the State. The new voters in the list include 158978 youths in the age group of 18-19 years including 89,338 men and 69,640 women. Changes in the names of 37,146 male voters and 32,149 women voters were done during the special summary revision.
With the approval of ECI the rationalisation of the polling stations was also done through a campaign in the State from July 22, 2014 to September 30, 2014. As many as 1,414 additional polling stations were established in the campaign. Presently, the State has 22,838 polling stations, officials said. The officials said that the finally published electoral roll has been provided in the office of electoral registration officer of all the constituencies for observation of people. The voters can also check their names in the electoral roll through the website ceochhattisgarh.nic.in. For further information a person can call on the toll free number 1950 during office hours.